MALINDA MARTIN, widow of William B. Martin, deceased, who was a private in Capt. Brassfield's company, Kentucky volunteers, war of 1812. He enlisted at Winchester, Kentucky, on or about the 10th, of August, 1812, and was honorably discharged at Fort Defiance, in December, 1812. ANNA ROUTH, widow of Jeremiah Routh, deceased, who was a private in Capt. Inglish's company, Tennessee militia regiment, war of 1812. He enlisted in Sevier county, Tennessee, on or about the 25th of November, 1813, and was honorably discharged on or about the 25th day of July, 1814.

HEATHY MOTT, widow of Loann Orange Mott, deceased, who enlisted in Capt. John Dowden's company, Slack's tavern, between Washington and Germantown, in Macon county, Kentucky, war of 1812, on or about the 10th day August, 1812, and was honorably discharged at Macon county, Kentucky, about the close of the year 1812.

MARY E. MAYBERRY, widow of Frederick E. Mayberry, deceased, who enlisted in Capt. William Lock's company, Col. Colman's regiment, in the division commanded by Gen. Andrew Jackson, Tennessee volunteers, on the 10th day of December, 1811, at Nashville, Tennessee, and was honorably discharged at Murfreesboro, Tennessee, on or about the 25th day of December, 1814.

Only one of the above mentioned widows is now living. Mrs. Anna Routh still survives, having attained the great age of eighty-seven years. She lives about four miles from Richmond, Ray county, Missouri.

MARY COMER, widow of John Comer, deceased, who was a soldier of the war of 1812, in Capt. Morris's company of Ohio volunteers, that did service in the army of Gen. Harrison. He enlisted at Chillicothe, Ross county, Ohio, on or about the 10th day of July, 1813, and was honorably discharged at Chillicothe, Ohio, on or about December 10, 1813. She was married to John Comer, on or about the 10th day of June, 1809, in Ross county, Ohio. Her name before marriage was Mary Baker. Mrs. Mary Comer moved from Ray county to Daviess county, Missouri, before her claim was completed, and died in Daviess county, eighty-seven years

old.

The act of congress approved March 9, 1878, extended the provisions of the act of February 14, 1871, to all widows of soldiers of the war of 1812, without any reference to the time of their marriages. Those living in Ray county, Missouri, are as follows.:

SELENA DAVIS, widow of John Davis, deceased, who was a soldier of the war of 1812, in Capt. John Crawford's company, Kentucky volunteers, forming a part of General Shelby's brigade. She lives about three miles from Knoxville, Ray county, Missouri. She was married to John Davis in Montgomery county, Kentucky, about June 1, 1817; her maiden name being Selena McDougal. She is now over eighty years old.

CATHARINE GUNNELL, widow of Nathaniel Gunnell, deceased, who was a soldier of the war of 1812, having enlisted in a Virginia company of volunteers, in the southeastern part of Virginia, on or about the year 1814. She was married to Nathaniel Gunnell, on the 8th day of January 1848, in Ray county, Missouri, her name before marriage being Mrs. Catharine Albert. She is now seventy-five years old, and until recently lived about three miles from Millville, Ray county, Missouri.

NANCY MCCUISTION, widow of Thomas McCuistion, deceased, late soldier of the war of 1812, in Capt. John B. Dempsey's mounted volunteers. She was married to Lieut. Thomas McCuistion on or about the 15th day of February, 1816, her name before marriage being Nancy Jordan. She now lives with her son, A. A. McCuistion, in Richmond, Missouri, and is now seventy-nine years old.

MARY REED, widow of David Reed, deceased, a soldier of the war of 1812, who enlisted in Berkeley county, Virginia, on or about the 1st of August, 1814, and was honorably discharged on or about the 1st of March, 1815. She was married to David Reed on or about the 1st day of December, 1820, in Warren county, Missouri, at that time forming a part of Montgomery county, Missouri. Her maiden name was Mary Bryan. She lives with her daughter, Mrs. Elijah Happy, about five miles from Richmond. She has attained the age of eighty-three years.

1812.

Adaline RiffE, widow of John Riffe, deceased, a lieutenant in Capt. Wade's company of volunteers, from Casey county, Kentucky, war of He enlisted on or about the 1st day of September, 1814, and was honorably discharged on or about February 15, 1815. She was married to John Riffe in Ray county, Missouri, on the 15th day of January, 1846. Her name before this marriage was Mrs. Adaline Ross. She lives in Albany, Ray county, Missouri, about one mile from Orrick, and is now seventy-two years old.

NANCY RUSH, widow of Job Rush, a soldier of the war of 1812 in Capt. George Allen's company of Virginia militia, who enlisted on or about the 15th of April, 1813, and was honorably discharged at Norfolk, Virginia, on or about the 1st of October, 1813. She was married to Job Rush in Madison county, Virginia, on the 10th day of February, 1819. She is now eighty-three years old, and lives with her relatives near Richmond, Missouri.

JANE SMITH, widow of Jedediah Smith, deceased, a soldier of the war of 1812, in Capt. McCuistion's company, in the second regiment of North Carolina militia. He enlisted in Guilford county, North Carolina, in 1814, and was honorably discharged, after serving a term of over three months. She was married to Jedediah Smith, January 6th, 1818, in Guilford county, North Carolina. Her name before marriage was Jane Close. She is

now living about three miles from Lawson, with her son, William W. Smith, and has attained the great age of eighty-two years.

BLACK HAWK WAR IN 1832.

SOLDIERS OR WIDOWS OF SOLDIERS NOW LIVING IN RAY COUNTY.

Henry Brown, in Captain Sconce's company; William Crowley; Wililiam R. Blythe, first lieutenant in Captain Pollard's company, Colonel Sconce's regiment; Winant Vanderpool, a private in Captain William C. Pollard's company; Priscilla Conklin, late widow of Andrew Pearce, deceased, a private in Captain William Pollard's company; Ruth Riffe, widow of Jacob Riffe, deceased.

FLORIDA WAR.

In the Florida war, in the year 1837, the Missouri "spies," a company made up chiefly of recruits from Ray county, commanded by Captain John Sconce, Israel R. Hendly, first lieutenant, did good service in the swamps and everglades of Florida.

In the battle of Okeechobee, December 25, 1837, the company suffered severely. Among the killed were Perry Jacobs and James Remley, and among the wounded were John W. Martin and William B. Hudgins, from this county.

The following are the names of the soldiers, who were in the Florida war, who are now living in Ray county: William B. Hudgins, of Capt. Sconce's company Missouri Spies; Beniah Hagan, of Captain Pollard's company; Jackson Mann, of Captain Pollard's company; James B. Smith, of Captain John Sconce's company; William L. Feur, of Captain Pollard's company; Pleasant Slover, of Captain John Child's company Tennessee volunteers; Dr. Moody Manson, surgeon.

HEATHERLY WAR.

In 1836 two companies of Ray county militia, under command of Captains Matthew P. Long and William Pollard, were ordered out as a part of Brigadier-General William Thompson's brigade, to serve in the Heatherly war. The counties of Ray, Carroll and Clay, as late as 1836, extended from the Missouri river to the southern boundary line of Iowa territory. In June of that year (1836) the settlements in the northern portion of all these counties were sparsely peopled, and many miles apart. In the northern part of Carroll county, now embraced in the limits of Mercer and Grundy, near the line dividing these two counties, there was a comparatively small settlement, or a few families of pioneers residing. Of this number was an old man named Heatherly, and wife, some four grown sons, and two sons-in-law, and a family named Dunbar and another person, a near neighbor of Dunbar. enmity with Dunbar and his neighbors, and chance, always created in the unprotected

The Heatherlys were at availing themselves of the settlements, they murdered

Dunbar and his neighbor, and robbed their houses, and then fled into the more densely settled part of the country south, and reported that some Iowa Indians had made an irruption into that part of the country and had murdered and robbed these two persons. The clamor of the Heatherlys caused troops to be called out for the purpose of apprehending the Indians, and having them punished for these murders.

Brigadier-General William Thompson was commander of the brigade, embracing the counties of Ray, Clay and Carroll, and resided in Ray. He immediately ordered out five companies, one from Carroll, two from Ray, commanded as above mentioned, and two from Clay, commanded respectively by Captain David R. Atchison and Smith Crawford, and the battalion was under the personal command of Shubael Allen. The battalion from Ray and Carroll was commanded by General Thompson in person. The last named battalion marched rapidly to the scene of the crimes, and succeeded in finding the bodies of the murdered men, but no trace of any Indians could be found. The two battalions were in constant communication, and after about eighteen days' service, General Thompson ordered them to disband. Facts ascertained by General Thompson, when he was at the scene of the murder, and facts that came to light, induced the belief that the Heatherly gang were the murderers, and they were arrested and committed to jail in Carroll county, and after a delay of a year or more, some of them were convicted and sent to the penitentiary. The Heatherly family were more like gypsies than Americans. The children were of every hue, from mulattoes to pretty fair Caucasians. The moving spirit and motive power of the family was the old woman, the mother of this motley progeny. She had great shrewdness, and was as fiendish as a Hecate. It was in proof that she instigated, planned, and had the crimes committed, and conceived the idea of attributing them to the friendly Iowa Indians.

MORMON WAR.

In the fall of 1838, the Mormon war caused great excitement in Ray county. A considerable force of Mormons under their leader, Joe Smith, had assembled at Far West, in Caldwell county, Missouri, and serious apprehensions were entertained that they intended to make a descent upon Ray county. A portion of the force of Mormons, under the command of Capt. Patton, did march into Ray county, as far as what is now called 'Bogart's Battle Field," on Crooked river, in the northwest part of the county, on, or about the 15th of November, 1838, and met a company of Ray county militia, under the command of Capt. Samuel Bogart. After a sharp engagement, the militia were repulsed and fell back to the southern part of the county, leaving the Mormons the masters of the battlefield. In this engagement the Mormons lost Captain Patton, and the day following fell back to their main force at Far West, Caldwell county.

The wildest excitement prevailed in Ray county after this slight action. A large number of people in the northern part of the county removed their families and their effects to places of safety in the southern part of the county.

Lilburn W. Boggs, who was then governor of Missouri, issued a proclamation and ordered Major-General David R. Atchison to call out the militia of his division, in order to put down the insurgents and enforce the laws. General Atchison called out a part of the first brigade of Missouri state militia, under the command of General Alexander W. Doniphan, who proceeded at once to the seat of war.

There were called out in this expedition from Ray county four companies of militia, commanded respectively by Captains Samuel Bogart, Israel R. Hendley, Nehemiah Odell, and John Sconce. The militia were placed under the command of General John B. Clark.

General Doniphan, on reaching Far West, in Caldwell county, Missouri, after some slight engagements, where the principal Mormon forces had assembled, numbering about 1,000 men, commanded by Colonel G. W. Hinkle, demanded their surrender, on the following conditions, viz: That they should deliver up their arms, surrender their prominent leaders for trial, and that the remainder of the Mormons should, with their families, leave the state.

After some parleying, Joe Smith surrendered on General Doniphan's conditions.

The leaders were taken before a court of inquiry at Richmond, Ray county, Judge Austin A. King, presiding. He remanded them to Daviess county to await the action of the grand jury on a charge of treason against the state.

The Daviess county jail being very poor, they were taken to Liberty, Clay county, Missouri, and confined in the jail at that place.

Indictments were presented against Joseph Smith, Hyrum Smith, Sidney Rigdon, Lyman Wright, Colonel G. W. Hinkle, Charles Baldwin, and Amos Lyman. Sidney Rigdon was released on a writ of habeas corpus, at Liberty, Clay county, Missouri.

The others applied for a change of venue, which was granted by Judge Austin A. King, and their cases were sent by him to Boone county for trial. On their way to Columbia, Boone county, under a military guard, Joseph Smith and his fellow-prisoners effected their escape. It is claimed, and believed by many, that the guard, or a portion of it was bribed.

THE MEXICAN WAR.

Almost thirty-five years have rolled around since the Mexican war. Since then many and great events have taken place. Many brilliant and illustrious achievements have been chronicled upon the historic page, and astounding inventions and marvelous discoveries have wrought revolu